Thursday 13-Dec

World Rankings as at 12th June 2011

There is currently no official system of World Rankings for Australian Football, as the international game is still mostly amateur, still maturing and there are often difficulties in nations having all their best players available. However, due to popular demand, since 2006 worldfootynews.com has been providing rankings.

This is the first update since 4th April 2011 and is the last prior to the 2011 AFL International Cup. Only two eligible matches have been played, with Ireland (ranked 4th) comfortably defeating Great Britain (10th) in England, whilst in Paris home side France lost fairly convincingly to Germany (13th). It was the debut for France in full field internationals, remembering it takes 8 matches to be consider fully ranked on our table. The results saw all teams hold steady in their positions.

World Footy News / Homes Australian Football World Rankings

(as at 12th June 2011)

Rank

Team

Points

Games

1

Australia

-

-

2

Papua New Guinea

53.89

23

3

New Zealand

53.84

27

4

Ireland

48.46

32

5

Nauru

47.06

13

6

United States

46.53

29

7

Denmark

44.22

35

8

South Africa

43.92

16

9

Samoa

41.85

18

10

Great Britain

40.01

37

11

Sweden

39.06

19

12

Canada

38.01

29

13

Germany

37.37

10

14

Japan

33.33

18

15

Finland

29.02

13

Prov.

Croatia

40.60

4

*

Prov.

Tonga

40.00

3

*

Prov.

Peace Team

39.88

5

*

Prov.

France

37.00

1

*

Prov.

Iceland

35.64

4

*

Prov.

China

34.00

5

*

Prov.

India

28.33

5

*

Prov.

Spain

28.00

6

*

* Nations marked in grey with an asterisk have played less than eight (8) matches under our criteria, and currently hold provisional ranking points, but are not yet officially ranked. Spain has not played for more than 4 years and so would be provisionally ranked either way. They must play an eligible match by 13/08/2013 to remain on the list.